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Denominational Groups, 2000

267,005	111,559	2,502	217,207	30,492	1,015,796
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	123	114,739	93.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	62	49,087	40.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	47	6,978	5.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	45	16,960	13.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	43	7,713	6.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	40	13,797	11.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	39	22,768	18.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	33	5,707	4.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	30	8,167	6.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	29	110,307	90.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	27	15,447	12.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	20	2,938	2.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	18	9,788	8.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	17	7,703	6.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	16	9,643	7.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	15	14,871	12.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	13	548	0.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	11	883	0.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	11	3,166	2.6
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	8	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	9,456	7.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	18,800	15.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,922	1.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,273	1.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	689	0.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	359	0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	4	245	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	692	0.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	4	919	0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	177	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	383	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	510	0.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	128	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	502	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	597	0.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	268	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	550	0.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	186	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	103	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	695	0.6
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	189	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	484	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	440	0.4
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.0
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	142	0.1
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.0
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	83	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	197	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	88	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	473	0.4
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	365	0.3
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	45,925	37.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	752	509,232

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,224,852. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (509,232) include 41.6% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.